Interpretace narativní fikce: kolik světů je zapotřebí?

• Authors: Koťátko Petr

Title variants

EN

INTERPRETING NARRATIVE FICTION: HOW MANY WORLDS DO WE NEED?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author continues in defending the view that the texts of narrative fiction direct our thought and imagination to the real world of our life: the storyworld is the state of the real world we are supposed to accept (in the as if mode) as actual. He argues that in interpreting fiction we do not project counterfactual scenarios or states of affairs into another world, construed for this purpose: instead, we project them into the real world via accepting them (in the as if mode) as facts of this world. This view is incompatible with the fictional worlds theory but admits the application of the apparatus of the possible worlds theory (provided that we accept Saul Kripke’s interpretation of possible worlds as “total ways the world might have been”). The author confronts his position with the views recently presented by Stacie Friend and replies to a new counter-example designed to show that the identification of a storyworld with the real world can be blocked by an explicit metafictional pronouncement.

Keywords

CS

Narativní fikce; fikční svět; možný svět; fikční reference; metafikce

EN

Narrative fiction; fictional world; possible world; fictional reference; metafiction

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 61
• Pages: 33-48

Contributors

author

Koťátko Petr

• Filosofický ústav AV ČR